For the Record
Little Big Town - Nightfall (Ltd. Ed. Clear 2XLP)
Following the release of their new single, "Over Drinking", Little Big Town plans to drop their ninth studio album. The new project, called Nightfall, will come out early in 2020, just one day after the group's landmark Jan. 16 performance at New York City's historic Carnegie Hall. "The record feels kind of cinematic to me, but there's also a lot of beautiful intimate moments," she explains. "In a theater, this record is really going to shine." Read on to learn everything we know so far about the group's forthcoming ninth record!
The Best of Vinyl 2019 Round Two - The Top 30
Here is Round 2! If you want to see the 106 albums we started with, read the For The Record post from Round One. In Round Two, the original list is narrowed down to our Top 30. These are not listed in any order. Just the top scoring albums buy our judges.
Best Vinyl of 2019 ROUND ONE!
Blind Tiger Record Club Best Vinyl of 2019 - Round One! It's that time again when every cultural, entertainment, and music publication look back over the previous year and put together their "End of Year" lists. Some of these lists start populating our feeds and inboxes in early December. In the past, we have waited until January to post our list. This year, however, we are doing things a little different!
Young Mister - Sudden Swoon + Olivia Jean Night Owl 7"
Young Mister, aka North Carolina-based singer-songwriter Steven Fiore, has been stitching songs together out of the tossed-off scraps of life for over a decade now. His eye for detail and ear for melody has always had a habit of disarming and charming music lovers worldwide. He writes like a journalist assigned to cover the human heart; no bombast, no hyperventilating, just honest truths about love and life that can only be expressed through the inscrutable alchemy of a song — and with his newest collection, ‘Sudden Swoon,’ he might have accidentally reinvented not only himself but the entire process of releasing an album in the modern age.
Ben Harper - Welcome to the Cruel World (2XLP) + Teddy & the Rough Riders I Found Somethin 7"
A quarter-century later, Ben Harper's Welcome To The Cruel World remains an especially welcomed auspicious debut that let the world at large know a singular singer/songwriter had fully arrived on the scene.
Bob Seger - Against The Wind + Coldplay "Orphans & Arabesque" 7"
Vinyl LP pressing. Against The Wind is the 11th studio album by rock singer/songwriter Bob Seger and his fourth with the Silver Bullet Band. It was released in February 1980. It is Seger's only #1 album to date, spending six weeks at the top of the Billboard Top LPs chart, knocking Pink Floyd's The Wall from the top spot.
Coldplay - Everyday Life (180G 2XLP) + The Raconteurs "Help Me Stranger" 7"
Includes digital download. 2019 release. Everyday Life is the eighth studio album by seven time Grammy winners Coldplay. The album is divided into two halves: Sunrise and Sunset. Everyday Life includes the singles "Orphans" and "Arabesque".
White Reaper - You Deserve Love + The Hives "I'm Alive" 7"
Vinyl LP pressing. 2019 release. Recorded with producer Jay Joyce in Nashville, Tennessee, You Deserve Love marks White Reaper's Elektra Records debut and follows their celebrated 2017 album, The World's Best American Band. The album is a collection of smart, sharply-written songs of doubt, dislocation, and elusive and often complicated love. Reflecting on the album title, vocalist/guitarist Tony Esposito explained that the name for the record came from a note on bassist Sam Wilkerson's phone. "He had written things down he thought might be good album titles, and we were all sitting around at a bar in Nashville after we had just finished recording, vexing about what we were going to call the album." Wilkerson explained, "I started reading them aloud at the bar, and everyone stopped me at You Deserve Love," adding, "I think it's cool, because it's true for everybody. I think it's what everybody needs to hear."